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A producer's film is endangered when his star walks off, so he decides to digitally create an actress to substitute for the star, becoming an overnight sensation that everyone thinks is a real person. Full summary » | Full synopsis »

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In the original theatrical release, Simone was credited "as herself". In subsequent versions of the film, this was changed to "and introducing Rachel Roberts as Simone."See more »

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Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The hard drive which holds "S1m0ne" data is shown to be without a cover over the disk platters. Viktor (Al Pacino) is shown to put his hands on the surface of the top platter when he inserts the hard disk into his PC. Any reasonably well informed PC user or repairman knows that a hard disk's platters are extremely sensitive to both dust and finger oils: exposing the platters to open air and finger oils would quickly render the hard disk useless. While we can't expect Viktor to know this, we can expect his scientist/supplier Hank Aleno to have known this. Hank Aleno should not have provided such an obviously unreliable piece of PC hardware.See more »

Director and writer Andrew Nicol has only a few scripts and movies in his
record, but all are memorable. He wrote and directed 'Gattaca', wrote 'The
Truman Show' script, and here he is again both writing and directing with
'S1m0ne'. It is seldom that one director chooses his films in such a focused
manner, and in his case it certainly pays back.

'S1m0ne' is another story about Hollywood, but a really original one. Since
the film was released the first completely virtual film became reality, and
some of the best movies of 2002 combine real actors and fantastic computer
generated characters. Is this a threat to the big star system? This is the
main theme of the movie. The second, and maybe even more important is the
cult for icons, the morbid fascination of the public with the life of
celebrities. The two themes play well together, combined with the excellent
portrait that Al Pacino creates for his Faustian director.

I liked the movie. It has enough interesting material to keep the interest.
The weaker points are the length - yet another film which would have benefit
if it was 10-15 minutes shorter - and the final which is too conventional
relative to the originality of the rest of the script.

8/10 on my personal scale - go and see or rent it, you will not be
disappointed.

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